Hello, Am 20.07.2017 um 21:54 schrieb Peter Southwood:
Which devices with an induction motor will run off a laptop power cable?
while there is no such a thing as a “laptop cable”, the original question was about general “power cables”.
The cable between the wall-socket and you laptop-transformer is usually one of these 3: * A rubber connector (C14) * Clover-leaf or Mickey Mouse (C5) * Not polarized (C7)
C14 and C7 are also used in many other devices beside IT: C7 for example with radios. And here lies the danger: That somebody would use the cables you provided for laptops (where they are mostly fine) to connect devices that are not ready for under-voltage. If you use a C14 to power a fan-cooled heater, the possibility that it will catch fire (because the dumb heating works fine, but the more complex fan is not) is quite high.
I do not say that something bad will happen (because modern devices often use far range transformers), but there is the possibility; as you could read in this thread some people were …naive… enough to plug-in American devices into European socket-outlets.
Sincerely, DaB.